Beijing Guodian New Energy Technology Research Institute

Project Profile

1. Project Statement

This project is located in the northeast corner of the Future Science and Technology City, east of Beiqijia Town in Changping District, Beijing. The design employs a simple and pure language to create a modern and cutting-edge landscape environment. By creating varied vertical spaces, establishing a pedestrian-friendly pathway system separate from vehicular traffic, and designing appropriately scaled activity areas, it fosters a healthy, elegant, and harmonious work and leisure atmosphere. Sponge city measures such as rain gardens, sunken green spaces, and terraced flower beds are used to retain, purify, collect, and utilize rainwater. The design presents a modern, pleasant, and sustainable office and leisure environment.

2. Design Strategy

(1) Creating a Large Rain Garden: Small-Scale Sponge City Practices

The project site incorporates measures for rainwater management, including purifying flower beds, gravel trenches, infiltration grass swales, rain gardens, sunken green spaces, and rainwater collection tanks. The site boundary, utilizing existing elevation differences, features a distinctive purifying flower bed and large rain garden landscape. The horizontal texture rationally divides this space, combining it with rich planting designs to form layered resting areas and plant landscape spaces. Precious rainwater undergoes an ecological cycle of retention, purification, collection, and utilization.

(2) Modern and Simple Design Elements with Rich Landscape Spaces

The main entrance area features a sequence of large steps, tall trees, and varied ground cover, transitioning inward to orderly textures, diverse paving, clean lawns, and upright tree arrays, forming a distinctive landscape axis throughout the park. On the west side of the main office building, a natural space with sparse woodland and grassland is created through micro-topography, providing an elegant venue for outdoor banquets, while the east side features a simple and grand urban landscape.

(3) Pure Under-Forest Space in a Green, Tree-Enclosed Corporate Environment

The courtyard in the research and development area serves as the main resting and gathering place for employees. The design rationally divides the space with raised wooden pedestrian walkways, combining dense and sparse woodland grasslands. Under-forest sports and leisure areas provide employees with a dynamic and static outdoor space.

3. Conclusion

After completion, the park successfully implemented a series of sponge city measures, combining rugged and delicate design elements with diverse and rich greenery, fully equipped site functions, and successfully applied for green building certification. It received unanimous approval from the client, employees, and architectural designers. This project represents a successful application of sponge city principles at the office park scale.